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Addendum: Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century

The following article from William Savage's A Dictionary of the Art of Printing (London, 1841), pp. 247-248 makes it clear that, in Savage's time at least, it was normal to cast founts of titling types with the lowercase descenders kerned:

FULL FACED LETTER. Types, in which the capitals, and the ascending letters of the lower case, fill the whole square of the shank, so that the descending letters project beyond the bottom of the shank.

This clarifies a point which puzzled me when writing the note on titling types for the last volume of Studies in Bibliography (V, 147-151). In the case of Caslon's wood letter, however, it is improbable that kerning could have been used.
Philip Gaskell

Notes On Contributors

Richard D. Altick, Professor of English at Ohio State University, is a specialist in 19th-century English literature with a particular interest in its publishing history. His most recent book The Scholar Adventurers (1950) contains some accounts of bibliographical detective work. The present paper is on a subject which will occupy his attention in a book now in progress.

William B. Todd, Professor of English at Salem College, is the foremost 18th century bibliographer of the present day. He is at present engaged with investigating the Strahan ledgers as a rich source of publishing history.

Alice Walker, D. Phil. Oxon, of Bideford, Devon, England, is perhaps the most active English scholar in applying bibliographical techniques to Shakespearian textual criticism. Her important book Textual Problems of the First Folio has recently been published by the University Press Cambridge.

Charlton Hinman received his Ph. D. from the University of Virginia. He is at present collating the text of the seventy-nine First Folios at the Folger Shakespeare Library with a mechanical collator of his own invention.

Fredson Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, delivered the present paper as a lecture while he was a Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom.

Arthur Frederick Stocker, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, is one of the editors of the Servian commentaries.

Curt F. Bühler, Curator of Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library, is a noted authority on incunabula and their bibliographical analysis.

Edwin Haviland Miller received his doctorate from Harvard University and is at present at Simmons College, Boston.

John Russell Brown, B. Litt. Oxon, is a Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The present is the first of two articles on John Webster.

John L. Lievsay, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has written widely on Spenser, Bacon, and the comparative literature of the Renaissance.

Richard B. Davis, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. At home both in American Literature and the English Renaissance he is expecting publication soon of two books, Jeffersonian America and George Sandys: Poet-Adventurer.

Cyprian Blagden, of Longmans Green & Co., London, is working on various aspects of book trade history in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Allan Stevenson, of Chicago, Illinois, is this year a Research Fellow at the Henry

E. Huntington Library. He is an authority on the bibliographical evidence of paper and watermarks.

Leonard Clark, of Leeds, England, is one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. A practicing poet himself, he has published five books of poems, as well as much biographical and critical writing. His personal friendship with Walter de la Mare has given him unique authority in compiling the present Handlist.

F. DeWolfe Miller, Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has written on the New England authors but is now interesting himself in Whitman.

Dennis E. Rhodes, M.A., is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books at The British Museum. His special interests are in early Italian Literature and bibliography.

John Alden, who has contributed several times to these Studies, is now a member of the Benedictine community at Abbaye S. Pierre, Solesmes, Sarthe, France.

Marion H. Hamilton received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She is now assistant professor at Wellesley College.

Richard B. Hudson, Assistant Professor at Indiana University, is working on a survey of the publishing conditions of the three-decker novel.

Rudolf Hirsch is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania.

Howell J. Heaney is librarian for Thomas W. Streeter, collector of Americana and bibliographer, of Morristown, New Jersey.

Philip Gaskell, Fellow of King's College Cambridge, is editor of The Book Collector.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

OFFICERS

President, LINTON R. MASSEY, "Kinloch," Keswick, Virginia

Vice-President, ARTHUR F. STOCKER, Box 1441, University Station, Charlottesville, Virginia

Editor, FREDSON BOWERS, Colonnade Club, Charlottesville, Virginia

Secretary-treasurer, JOHN COOK WYLLIE, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the British Isles, MRS. DOUGLAS WYLLIE, Templeton Library, 5I John Street, Helensburgh, Scotland

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Chile, DR. RICARDO DONOSO, President, Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos, Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Finland, MR. LAURI O. TH. TUDEER, University Library, Finland

Hon. Secretary-Trcasurer for France, MR. HENRI A. TALON, Faculte des Lettres, 36 rue Chabot-Charny, Dijon (Côte d'Or), France

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for India, DR. S. R. RANGANATHAN, Delhi University Library, University Building, Delhi 8, India

COUNCIL

(Officers and ex-presidents are ex-officio members.)

     

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The Papers, under the title of Studies in Bibliography, are issued annually by the Society, in addition to various bibliographical pamphlets in mimeographed or offset form, and a news sheet. This present volume may be purchased by non-members for $6 a copy, Vol. 4 for $6 a copy; and Vols. 1-3 for $5 a copy.

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Articles and notes are invited by the editor. Preferably these should conform to the recommendations of the Modern Language Association of America Style Sheet. The Society will consider the publication of bibliographical monographs when subvention is available, but may accept material for mimeographed issue without terms.

All matters pertaining to business affairs, including applications for membership, should be sent to the secretary, John Cook Wyllie, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Enquiries concerning foreign memberships should be sent to the foreign secretaries.

The publication of this volume of Studies in Bibliography, the Papers of the Society, has been materially aided by an anonymous grant, and by grants from the Research Committee of the University of Virginia, and the Research Council of the Richmond Area University Center.

WINNERS OF 1953 STUDENT BOOK COLLECTORS' CONTEST

JAMES MCNALLY
ROY E. CLARK

PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY

(SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE LISTS IN PREVIOUS VOLUMES.)

Walter Harding of the University of Virginia, "On Collecting Thoreau," 4 December 1952.

Mrs. Eleanor Shea of Charlottesville, Virginia, "The T. Catesby Jones Print Collection," 11 December 1952.

Exhibit "Modern Swedish Bookbinding," 14 December 1952.

Discussion: Use of the Union Catalog in Research," presided over by Jack Dalton, Librarian of the University of Virginia, 8 January 1953.

Film: "The Colonial Printer," of Williamsburg, Inc., 15 January 1953.

John Cook Wyllie of the University of Virginia, "The Forms of TwentiethCentury Cancels," 22 January 1953.

Richard Harwell of Atlanta, Georgia, "Confederate Music," 12 February 1953. Films: William Hayter's "New Way of Gravure," and "Grandma Moses," 4 March 1953.

William B. O'Neal of the University of Virginia, "The Art of Book Illustrations," (this meeting was held jointly with the Albemarle Art Association,) 11 March 1953.

Films: John Marin's "Engraving," and Henry Moore's "Sculpture," 22 April1953.

Irvin Kerlan of Washington, D. C., "Children's Books," 15 May 1953.

James Babb of Yale University, "On His Own and Yale's Book Collecting," 6 October 1953.

PAPERS FORMERLY READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY AND NOW PUBLISHED BY AGENCIES OTHER THAN THE SOCIETY

Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting, by Richard Barkesdale Harwell. A second edition, with facsimiles and an introduction by Clifford Dowdey, has been brought out by the University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va., at $2.50. The original mimeographed edition, now out of print, was distributed without charge to members of the Society.

The Forms of Twentieth-Century Cancels, by John Cook Wyllie. In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 47, Second Quarter, p. 95-112; also separately reprinted. The paper in its original form was presented before the student seminar of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.

A Hammer Bibliography (1930-1952), by Carolyn Reading. University of Kentucky Occasional Contribution No. 45, Lexington, Ky., 1952. Attention of the Society's members was originally called to this when it was appended to the paper entitled Victor Hammer of Kentucky, read before the Society on 9 May 1952.

CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1953

WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Hartford, Connecticut
HARRY CLEMONS, Charlottesville, Virginia
JACK DALTON, Charlottesville, Virginia
KENNETH S. GINIGER, New York City
JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City
GEORGE L. HARDING, Palo AIto, California
RICHARD B. HARWELL, Atlanta, Georgia
HERMAN W. LIEBERT, New Haven, Connecticut
JOHN E. MANAHAN, Radford, Virginia
LINTON R. MASSEY, Keswick, Virginia
CARL PFORZHEIMER, Purchase, New York
ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia
THOMAS STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey
JOHN COOK WYLLIE, Charlottesville, Virginia

ISSUED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR TO MEMBERS

Studies in Bibliography, vol. 5, edited by Fredson Bowers. Sent to Contributing, Subscribing, and Student members. Additional copies available to members at $4.50. Available to non-members at $6.00.

Secretary's News Sheet, Nos. 26-29. Sent to all members.

Samuel Snowden, A Founding Father of Printing in Alexandria, by Carrol H. Quenzel. Sent to Contributing members. Available to all other members free on request.

English Prose Fiction, 1661-1700, by Charles C. Mish. Sent to Contributing members. Available to all other members free on request. This is the third and final part of Mr. Mish's English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, the two earlier parts of which appeared in former years. All three parts are available to non-members for $3.00.

A Centennial Check-list of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau, by Walter Harding. Sent to all members. In addition to the advance impression issued to members, a second impression is being issued by the University of Virginia Press. This will be available to members and non-members at 52.50.

Memorandum on the German Edition of Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia," by Homer G. Richey. A 4-p. mimeographed memo. Sent to all members.

A Preliminary Checklist of Tennessee Imprints, 1861-1866, by Eleanor Drake Mitchell. Sent to Contributing members. Available to all other members at cost of production, $1.00. Available to non-members at $2.00.

A Preliminary Checklist of Lexington, Ky., Imprints, 1821-1850, by Roscoe M. Pierson. Sent to Contributing members. Available to all other members at cost of production, $1.00. Available to non-members at $2.00.

Maryland Imprints, 1801-1810, by Roger Pattrell Bristol. Sent to Contributing members. Available to all other members at cost of production, $4.00. Available to non-members at $7.50.

COLOPHON

Volume Six of the Society's Papers, STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, was designed, composed and printed by the William Byrd Press, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia.

The text is set in Linotype, and Monotype Granjon, display in Monotype Garamont. Text stock is Strathmore Pastelle. The engravings were made by the Royal Engraving Company of Richmond, Virginia, and the books were bound by Charles H. Bohn Company, of N. Y.